Status Updates From Villette

ahhh i love a good ‘good novel’ streak 😌

“We walked back to the Rue Fossette by moonlight—such moonlight as fell on Eden—shining through the shades of the Great Garden, and haply gilding a path glorious, for a step divine—a Presence nameless. Once in their lives some men and women go back to these first fresh days of our great Sire and Mother—taste that grand morning's dew—bathe in its sunrise.”

“There is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no reliable refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.”

“If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.”